Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:48:26PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> Right. But if you expect high precision on delays and scheduling, then you
> start also having issues with just random unpredictable delays because of
> other interrupts, paging, and whatnot. So in the end, your high precision
> delays and scheduling becomes very imprecise again. So, is there really that
> much value in that higher resolution?

Better than 100Hz is possible and still precise. Something around 1000Hz
is necessary for human interaction. Modern hardware could easily do 100kHz.

Another advantage is that you can use independent timing (that's what
bites in the emulator case where guest and host clocks run at the same
rate).

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